“But I’m a woman,” Natalie pointed out. Yeah, I know. Weird. She’s been saying that lately. I think she got it from A Mermaid Tale. It’s some Barbie movie and I think Barbie talks about becoming a woman or something. So now Natalie randomly says she’s a woman. I’m used to it, which is why I didn’t even react and instructed her to continue with her name.

“I don’t like the letter L today.” Natalie tried a different tactic.

“So your name is Nataie. Sounds like a name a celebrity would give their kid.”

“My name is Natalie.” She wrote in the letter L. “There!”

I thought, hey, now she’ll write her full name.

Then she came home yesterday with this.

(Well, there WOULD be a picture but it's on my phone and my phone IS NOT TURNING ON! So basically just picture a paper with NA written across it..)

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I still remember when I learned how to write my name.. For the longest time I just wrote NAT. It was on everything. In my books, every scrap paper I could find, magazines.. everywhere. Then I learned the rest of it. And I proved it by using a rock to write it down the side of my grandmother's black Cadillac.

Apparently I have a son named E.W. That is what he has started putting on all of his schoolwork. I guess if his teacher doesn't care I shouldn't. Lazy little boy, I guess Ethan Wallwork takes too long.

We have a son called Christopher and his primary teacher always complained about how long the name was and how long it took him to write it. He ended up as Chris. When we had our next child - Anna - she said she was mightily relieved, because even if she wrote it backwards, it would still be right.

You never really think about this when you are naming your children. I have a competitive sister and our girls are the same age I remember Allie could write her name perfect and my Katelyn struggled I always though hello how hare is the name Allie....I wish I named Katelyn....Sue!

I agree with several commentors..."But I have a hole in my head!" really is the best excuse ever! haha!

Keep calling her Na and she'll get so pissed that she'll start writing it all out just to make you wrong! :-)And to really drive that home, the first time you see her write it out you should tell her you prefer Na. WAHAHAH! It's fun to be evil! :-)